Research Catalog

Title

The quick reference guide to educational innovations : practices, programs, policies, and philosophies / Carolyn Orange.

Author

Orange, Carolyn.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, ©2002.

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Details

Description

xvii, 141 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

Highlights include a comprehensive exploration of more than 60 proven practices, results-oriented programs, policies, and innovative movements/theories.nbsp;

Subject

• Educational innovations > Terminology
• Education > Experimental methods > Terminology
• Educational change > Terminology
• Educational innovations
• Education
• educating
• Education > Experimental methods
• Educational change
• Educational innovations
• Forschung
• Pädagogik
• Schulentwicklung
• Schulreform
• Wörterbuch

Genre/Form

• Dictionary
• dictionaries.
• Dictionaries
• Terminology
• Dictionaries.
• Dictionnaires.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-134) and index.

Contents

• 1. Practices. Advanced organizer -- Applied learning -- Art galleries -- Art therapy -- Assertive discipline -- Authentic asessment -- Behavior management centers -- Behavioral objectives -- Benchmarks -- Bibliotherapy -- Block scheduling -- Brainstorming -- Career days -- Classwide peer tutoring -- Collaborative learning -- Communities in schools -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Concept mapping -- Conflict resolution -- Content mastery -- Cooperative learning -- Core knowledge -- Detention -- Direct instruction -- Discovery learning -- Distance learning -- Education portals -- Electronic field trips -- Experiential learning -- Guided imagery -- Habit formation -- Homework labs -- Indirect teaching -- Inquiry learning -- Interdisciplinary unit -- Learning centers -- Lecture -- Literacy skills -- Literature circles -- Looping -- Mentoring -- Mind mapping.
• Multisensory instruction -- Peer mediation -- Phonics -- Portfolios -- Premack principle -- Rehearsal -- Role-play -- Rote memorization -- Rubrics -- Scaffolding -- Simulation -- Socratic method -- SQ4R -- Team teaching -- Time capsule -- Touchmath -- Vertical teams -- Virtual reality -- Zone of proximal development -- 2. Programs. Accelerated reader -- Alternative education -- Balanced literacy -- Character education -- Charter schools -- Chicago math -- Creative Education Institute (CEI) reading program -- Drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) -- Edison project/Edison schools -- Effective schools -- Emergent literacy -- Expeditionary learning outward bound (ELOP) -- Gifted and talented -- Head start -- Health occupations students of America (HOSA) -- Jumpstart -- Modern red schoolhouse (MRSh) -- National school lunch program (NSLP) -- Paideia schools -- Reading recovery -- Success for all (SFA) -- Trailblazers.
• 3. Policies. Honor roll -- Immersion -- Inclusion -- Individualized education plan -- Intelligence testing -- No pass/no play -- Resource room -- Sexual harassment -- Standardized testing -- Summer school -- Teacher accountability -- Zero tolerance -- Alternative assessment -- Brain-based learning -- Conditions of learning -- Internet -- Learning styles -- Magnet schools -- Mainstreaming -- Mastery teaching -- Montessori method -- Motivation theory -- Multicultural education -- Multiple intelligences -- Outcome-based education -- Psychological schools of thought -- Rationalism -- Empiricism -- Structuralism -- Funtionalism -- Connectionsim -- Behaviorism -- Associationism -- Cognitivism -- School vouchers -- Self-regulation -- Situated learning -- Social learning -- Whole language.

ISBN

• 0761978151
• 9780761978152
• 076197816X
• 9780761978169

LCCN

2001008603

OCLC

• ocm48674569
• 48674569
• SCSB-1250800

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library